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Show THE REAL REMEDY. Wc believe that if thu Government of tho. United States would, withdraw its refusal to ajlow people to' get coal lands, capital would come in so as to insure si. decisive reduction iu tho price of coal by next year. Of course, wo all understand that under tho tendencies of I'ommercialism in these days, it would be necessary fo.r the Government to protect the people fully against fraudulent fraudu-lent coal land entries, in which case a new United States Attorney would .bo necessary for this Federal district, and that, the Government would need to I reserve power to cancel tho entries at. lint, limn II n-OL- ui.rlcl'ln.l Mint monopoly was cither controlling thru new coal supply, or that those who have this supply were in agreement with tho monopoly so as to deprive the people of relief. That is, the Government iu throwing" opou tho coal lands to' entry or to nso in some form (perhaps by lease) should make it absolutely certain cer-tain that tho new and 'independent coal supply was iu fact independent, that it should be absolutely competitive and run on a proper business basis so as to afford the' needed relief 6 the people peo-ple , As Tho Tribune pointed out .before election, a great injustice was done to tho people of Utah in this arbitrary and dearly unjustifiable raise in the coal rales. This raise wa,s from ;?5.7,1 per tqn to $15.20 per ton; but. the f&Jo per ton was itself tho top notch of a series of unjustifiable raises. It lias always becu thc contention of those who arc well wishers for Salt Lake City, interested in its prosperity, and having knowledge of tho surroundings, -the coal supply, etc., that this city ought to get lump coal at .-r'o.QU per ton and. slack for a good deal less. A good many years ago the Bamberger read was started as a coal road, contracts were signed by a largonuntber of citizens citi-zens here with that road, to take coal to be delivered by it at $3.00 per ton. It was a perfectly fensible proposition then. It is a perfectly feasible proposition proposi-tion now. And yet more than doublo that price is extorted from the people of this city for lump coal. At $3.0U per ton those who wore back of the Bamberger Bam-berger road at that, time figured that they could make plenty of money in, selling CQal in this city.. . Wc believe they could. We .believe that the coai producers could do the same today. Tho real remedy for the trouble about tho coal prices, it seems to us, is to throw open tho coal fields under restrictions restric-tions that will allow tho Government to break up an combine that may be formed by reason of such opening, and let independent capital come in for the suppb'iug of coal to tho city. There is ample coal available in different partsof the State, vaud also in Wyoming. Wyom-ing. All that is wanted is a free field for investment and .' production, with ample power on tho part. of the Government, Govern-ment, through reserving the right to interfere in-terfere in caso any attempt is made to consolidate tho independent interests with present monopolies, to protect tho ueonlc. |
